Only the Second of its Kind in North America
Stack’s Bowers Galleries, leading retailer and auctioneer of premium collectible coins, currency and precious metals, and division of Spectrum Group International, Inc. (SPGZ.PK), tomorrow will... read more »
April 27, 2012 6:39 AM / no comments
IRVINE, Calif. – Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio conducted its April 2012 Hong Kong sale last week at the Mira Hotel in Kowloon. Drawing huge crowds of bidders, the four day auction event realized an impressive total of $10,546,612. In three... read more »
April 16, 2012 9:20 AM / no comments
More than 6,500 U.S. Coin and Exonumia Lots Realize $16,407,956
IRVINE, Calif. – Stack’s Bowers Galleries conducted its Official Auction of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Baltimore Expo March 19-27, 2012. The impressive sale presented... read more »
April 3, 2012 8:23 AM / no comments
IRVINE, Calif. – Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio will present an exceptional selection of more than 3,100 lots of Chinese and East Asian coins and banknotes at The Mira Hong Kong, April 1-4, 2012, HKT. The four-day auction event is estimated... read more »
March 28, 2012 2:36 PM / no comments
Ex: Stickney, Ellsworth, Garrett The Guide Book Plate Coin
The history of this rare copper New Hampshire coinage is fairly well documented in the literature, especially in Sylvester S. Crosby’s Early Coins of America (1875), which reproduces... read more »
March 19, 2012 7:42 AM / no comments
By Todd McKenna, Numismatist and Stacks Bowers Auction Services Associate
This pattern, designed by the Austrian engraver for the Vienna mint Richard Placht, was undertaken during the construction of the mausoleum for the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen... read more »
March 15, 2012 7:22 AM / no comments
By Bruce Roland Hagen, Senior Research Numismatist, Stacks Bowers
The highest Mormon Church officials gathered in January 1849 to finalize and circulate the most historic paper currency in their history.
Using Kirtland Safety Society Bank... read more »
March 15, 2012 7:02 AM / no comments
Stack’s Bowers Galleries announced today that John Kraljevich, an independent numismatist and researcher, has signed an exclusive contract for numismatic cataloging services with the firm. Kraljevich, a resident of New York City, cataloged... read more »
February 27, 2012 9:16 AM / no comments
by Kent Ponterio, Senior Numismatist and Consignment Director Stack’s Bowers / Ponterio
Among the many highlights to be offered at auction in Stack’s Bowers Ponterio April 1-4 Hong Kong auction is an extremely rare Soviet Government of... read more »
February 23, 2012 11:53 AM / no comments
IRVINE, Calif. – Stack’s Bowers Galleries announces that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4) to conduct an annual auction of Colonial coinage and related material. The inaugural joint auction... read more »
February 3, 2012 10:30 AM / no comments